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O.C. official fined $2,000 for voting on campaign donor's project

August 9, 2012 | 9:02
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A Huntington Beach planning commissioner has been fined $2,000 for voting on a large development project and then failing to disclose that the builder has donated money to her failed bid to win a seat on the city council.

Barbara Delgleize did not disclose the $520 donation from Irvine-based Sares-Regis Group to her unsuccessful 2010 campaign when she voted in favor of the company's housing and commercial project in February 2011, the Fair Political Practices Commission said.

The company want to to build a 487-unit apartment complex and 14,500-square-foot commercial project at Edinger Avenue and Gothard Street.